Quinton “Rampage” Jackson is opening up on why he and UFC CEO Dana White didn’t get along when he fought for the promotion back in the day.
“Rampage” was already a star when he arrived in the UFC from PRIDE in 2007, and over several years with the company he won the 205 pound belt off Chuck Liddell, starred in one of the biggest seasons of The Ultimate Fighter, and headlined several big pay-per-views.
But things started souring between Jackson and White around 2012, and Quinton explained why in an new episode of his JAXXON PODCAST.
“I think I fell out with Dana when I lost to Ryan Bader in Japan,” Jackson said. “I got injured before that fight and I called Dana right away. I said ‘I got a partial tear in my meniscus.’ He said ‘What are you gonna do?’ I said ‘S—, man, it’s Japan. I still want to fight. F— it, I still want to fight.’ It was Japan. I love fighting in Japan.”
“So when I went there and fought and I lost by decision, the first thing Dana did in the press conference is ‘I don’t know what’s going on with Rampage, I don’t think he has it, I don’t think he wants it any more.’ I was like ‘Man!’ That was when I — after all the s— that Dana did to me, when he did that s— that was when I got kind of pissed at him. And I lost my love for fighting right there.”
“Because I never pulled out of a fight,” he said. “I don’t pull out. I got four, five, six kids. I don’t pull out. I had never pulled out of a fight in my career. Never pulled out. And then after that I started pulling out of fights because I was like ‘F— this s—.’ You don’t get no respect for fighting injured, and I let Dana know right away that I was injured.”
“For him to do that, it kind of made me look at him sideways.”
Jackson is reportedly set to make his return in December against former TUF 10 contestant Darrill Schoonover, the man he dubbed “Titties” on the show. It’s a far cry from the days when “Rampage” was taking on the Liddells, Silvas, and Joneses of the sport. At least he’s regaining his love for fighting?
Guy doesn’t fight for valid reason:
“You can’t make fighters fight. I just offer them. Maybe he doesn’t have it anymore, if you don’t want to fight you need to think about retiring. You don’t want to be half in this game!”
Guy fights through anyway:
“Maybe he doesn’t have it anymore. You see him out there? It looks like he doesn’t want to be out there. If you don’t want to be here you should think about retiring.”
blaf if he never met the fertitta’s and boxercise didn’t work out
Fuck that goof Dana
He didn’t follow the plan
I still vividly recall wen Dana was saying that over and over when Chuck fought. It felt so bad, so weasel like, so “mob boss about to drop a favorite” vibe. Dana can do great things, and sometimes real head scratching ones.
Dana probably said that because he missed weight by 6LBs and looked like shit that fight…hope titties knocks his ass out
That shit was hilarious…i think he had a ton of money riding on Chuck winning the tournament
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